Theme Won’t Change

  • I want to change the theme on my site and have a few ready from when I first installed WP about 3 months ago. I checked each one then and decided on the current theme.

    Now I feel like a change but when I click to preview another theme all that shows in the preview is my current active theme. This happens no matter which I choose from ten or so themes installed on the server.

    Eventhough I can’t see the preview I did try to active a few themes but nothing happened at the front end at all. It’s strange, I can see the list of themes and even their thumbnails but all else fails.

    As a side issue I wouldn’t change the theme at all, only I’ve noticed that when viewing a category the links within each post excerpt are not active. This is only a problem to me because some postings have “for more info CLICK HERE” These are links to other sites and having them not ative reflect badly on the site. For the link to work for my visitors they would need to view the full post and thats not obvious.

    Sorry to ramble, and also if this problem is in the forum already – I did search and indeed thought I had found a solution but results in messing the site up as the solution was not exact for my problem.

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  • With regard to the themes – are they standard themes that you downloaded, or custom themes that you created? If they are standard then I would try removing one and re-installing it, as they could have somehow become corrupt.

    There is also an outside chance that a plugin is causing this, so if the above doesn’t work try removing all the plugins (Cut and paste to a different folder) and check. If it does work, add them back in one at a time to find the culprat.

    With regard to the post excerpt – are you writing the excerpt or letting WP get it automaticall? Not sure, but I would guess that WP probably strips out the HTML in that instance, as it is limited to 55 words. Personally I wrote a little code to put in place of the_excerpt() that takes everything until the first full stop, that way all the HTML is included.

    <? $post_content = explode('.', strip_tags(get_the_content())); ?>
<? echo $post_content[0] ?>. <a href="<?=$post->post_name?>">Read more...</a>

    Thread Starter kickoff3pm

    (@kickoff3pm)

    Great stuff, something to work on there indeed.

    Thanks for the help Duck_boy.

    Thread Starter kickoff3pm

    (@kickoff3pm)

    Not got around to adding that code but still got the problem with the themes not changing. They are well used themes and they all worked fine once so I suspect it’s a plugin.

    To recap – I want to change the theme to one of about ten I have on the server ready. When I preview any of these non-active themes I don’t see that theme I see the current one that already active. If I activate a new theme nothing changes at the front end.

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